Authors Note- I'm sorry it's so short, but the next one should be longer.
Jet blinked slowly as he looked into his father's face. God, he looked young! He glanced briefly around the room, they all looked young! Something very fishy was going on h...
"Time-travel?" He asked, not bothering to lower his voice.
"Yes Sir", she responded, not shocked that he had already guessed what had happened to them all. He was smart, it just wasn't often that he chose to show it.
Jet gently slapped a hand over his eyes, dragging the hand over his face, that one move showing how old he truly felt.
Jet's sharply spoken question had garnered the attention of the group seated opposite them, and they had all been watching Jet and Shadow interact with each other for the past few minutes.
"Should I start the briefing Sir?" Shadow gently asked, noticing the other group's attention that was fixed upon the two.
"You are the one who called the meeting. Take it away!" Jet remarked. "Besides, you're better at negotiating than I am. Don't you remember what happened last time?"
Shadow smirked slightly, before coughing gently to gain the attention of the room, which hadn't really been necessary, since they'd been paying attention since Jet had first spoken.
"Good day. As most of you here know, my name is Shadow. Some of you for the past few minutes may have been hearing unknown voices, or seeing people shaped clouds of mist. Do not worry. In case you haven't, there is a group of people across the room from us. Do not be alarmed if you begin to see people at those tables," she explained, pointing at the aforementioned tables.
"I called this meeting because…" Here, Shadow was cut off, due to the large white cloud of energy with octopus-like tendrils spiralling from it that had appeared at the roof of the room, and was slowly descending downwards.
Various gasps were heard from both sides of the room, excluding a very small amount from Jet's group, when the cloud transformed into a person. That person looked to be an older, wiser, more ancient looking version of Major John Sheppard.